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• Psalm 21Bible

  Psalm 21 is a royal psalm that thanks God for granting the king his desire and for giving him victory and long life. It anticipates the king's triumph over his enemies and praises the power of God.

• Psalm 36Bible

  Psalm 36 is a psalm of David that contrasts the wicked, who have no fear of God, with God's lovingkindness, which reaches to the heavens, and prays that this lovingkindness will continue.

• Psalm 47Bible

  Psalm 47 is a psalm of the sons of Korah, a nine-verse hymn that calls all peoples to clap their hands and praise God, the great King over all the earth. It portrays God going up amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet and taking His seat on His throne.

• Psalm 34Bible

  Psalm 34 is a psalm of David that gives thanks for deliverance from danger and teaches the way of the fear of the LORD. It is an acrostic poem whose verses begin with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and it sings of the afflictions of the righteous and of God's deliverance.

• Psalm 29Bible

  Psalm 29 is a psalm of David that praises the glory and kingship of the LORD, celebrating seven times "the voice of the LORD" sounding in thunder and storm. It closes with the blessing of strength and peace that the LORD gives to his people.

• Psalm 38Bible

  Psalm 38 is a lament in which David, sick in body and soul because of his sin, forsaken by his friends, and harassed by his enemies, confesses his sin to God and pleads for help. It is counted among the seven Penitential Psalms.

• Psalm 48Bible

  Psalm 48 is a song of the sons of Korah that celebrates the beauty and strength of Zion, the city where God dwells. It recalls how assembled kings fled in terror at the sight of Zion and urges that this God be made known to the generations to come.

• Psalm 55Bible

  Psalm 55 is a lament psalm of David in which one betrayed by a close friend cries out to God amid an enemy's oppression and the terror of death, and finally arrives at the confession of trust, "Cast thy burden upon the LORD."

• Psalm 37Bible

  Psalm 37 is a wisdom psalm attributed to David. It urges readers not to fret because of the wicked who seem to prosper, but to trust in the LORD and wait for Him. It repeatedly contrasts the wicked, who wither like grass, with the meek and the righteous, who inherit the land.

• Psalm 59Bible

  Psalm 59 is a lament traditionally attributed to David. It is a prayer for deliverance from bloodthirsty enemies, and it closes with praise to God as "my defence," or high fortress.

• Psalm 41Bible

  Psalm 41 is a psalm of David that closes Book One of the Psalter. Lying on a sickbed, the psalmist seeks God's mercy amid the hostility of enemies and the betrayal of a close friend, and the doxology in the final verse concludes all of Book One.

• Psalm 60Bible

  Psalm 60 is a communal prayer that laments military defeat and the anguish of seeming abandonment by God, then appeals for help by holding fast to God's promise to apportion the land.

• Psalm 67Bible

  Psalm 67 is a short communal psalm of praise, seven verses long, that asks God for blessing and prays that through that blessing all nations may come to know and praise Him.

• Psalm 45Bible

  Psalm 45 is a "song of loves" of the sons of Korah. A royal wedding psalm, it praises the king's majesty, victories, and everlasting throne and celebrates the marriage in which the bride is brought into the royal palace. Verses 6–7 are quoted in Hebrews 1.

• Psalm 71Bible

  Psalm 71 is an individual lament without a superscription. The psalmist, who has trusted God from youth, pleads not to be cast off in old age and vows to declare God's righteousness and salvation to generations to come.

• Psalm 58Bible

  Psalm 58 is a Michtam of David, an eleven-verse psalm of lament that rebukes those who judge unjustly, asks God to break the power of the wicked, and confesses that there is a God who judges in the earth.

• Psalm 49Bible

  Psalm 49 is a wisdom psalm of the sons of Korah. It teaches that even those who trust in wealth cannot escape death or buy their own lives, and it confesses that God will redeem the psalmist's soul from the grave (Sheol).

• Psalm 68Bible

  Psalm 68 is a hymn of praise that portrays God, who led His people through the wilderness, marching from Mount Sinai to His sanctuary. It calls the nations to praise the God who cares for the fatherless and widows and scatters His enemies.

• Psalm 75Bible

  Psalm 75 is a psalm of Asaph, a song of thanksgiving and praise declaring that God judges with righteousness at the time He has appointed, bringing down the proud and exalting the righteous.

• Psalm 53Bible

  Psalm 53 is a psalm of David that laments the corruption of the fool who says there is no God and the sinfulness of all humanity, and that longs for salvation to come out of Zion. Its content is nearly identical to that of Psalm 14.